Secession

(noun.) formal separation from an alliance or federation.

(noun.) the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War.

(noun.) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s.

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• It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was an allegory, representing Mr. Davis in the act of signing a secession act or some such document. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This secession was an immense loss to her, she alleged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Secession was illogical as well as impracticable; it was revolution. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• His district had been settled originally by people from the Southern States, and at the breaking out of secession they sympathized with the South. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This had been the secret of his secession at the time of Lord Raymond's election. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They would surely have resisted secession could they have lived to see the shape it assumed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was evident to my mind that the election of a Republican President in 1856 meant the secession of all the Slave States, and rebellion. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The secession of one State after another followed, until eleven had gone out. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They went so far as to repeal, after a spirited and acrimonious debate, the ordinance of secession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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